'I don't understand it': West Louisville resident says officer being shot is unacceptable
A Louisville Metro Police Department officer, ambushed during a traffic stop, remains in critical but stable condition Friday night.
Officer Brandon Haley was shot early Thursday morning.
Four people are charged with crimes related to the incident, but so far, no one has been arrested for shooting Haley.
The attack happened in the predominantly black Chickasaw neighborhood, where some residents are suspicious of the police.
A recent Department of Justice report pointed out instances of racist and abusive conduct by LMPD officers.
However, according to one Black resident in west Louisville, an unprovoked attack on two white officers, simply trying to protect and serve, is unacceptable.
"I understand the fear of the police, but shooting at them? Come on now. They have to go home, too. They have families. They are people," said Keidra Woolfolk.
Woolfolk has had enough of the nonsense. She lives in the Russell neighborhood.
Woolfolk's grandmother lives in Chickasaw, on the same street where Haley was shot during a traffic stop.
The gunfire didn't come from the driver Haley pulled over.
The bullets were fired from someone in a house.
Woolfolk knows what that's like. "You have to get low away from the windows. It's sad that I know the routine," she said.
LMPD has made four arrests related to a standoff that followed the shooting.
Police believe Quantez Porter, Jacquan Ransom and Dominique Thompson were in a house on South 40th near West Kentucky Street when someone inside opened fire on Haley and Officer Colin Billotto.
The LMPD SWAT Team went into the home hours later.
According to court records, officers found heroin, crystal meth, fentanyl, and other drugs, along with several handguns and rifles.
Porter, Ransom, and Thompson were arrested for resisting arrest, drug, and gun charges.
The fourth man, Jemond Groves, was allegedly found hiding under a car in a neighbor's backyard with a stolen gun nearby.
At this point, none of the men are charged for the shooting.
"You can't really enjoy yourself on the porch because you don't know if you're going to hear a gunshot or not or eat on the floor in the kitchen because somebody decided to shoot. It's crazy," Woolfolk said.
Haley has been with LMPD since June of last year and works in the Second Division.
He remains in critical but stable condition, according to LMPD.
"I'm sorry to hear that. That's horrible. That's stupid. Once again, I don't, I don't, I don't understand it," Woolfolk said.